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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 13h

Join the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

🆓 Free admission | 🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV

4 November 16:00 HU Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

Nice piece from @antonhowes.bsky.social on @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Joel Mokyr who won the economics Nobel. As Anton brings out, it’s great to see the prize recognising economic history, especially that which comes out in books
www.worksinprogress.news/p/what-makes...

What makes Joel Mokyr great

His Nobel is a triumph for history and the importance of ideas

www.worksinprogress.news

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · 1d

What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt

kevinbryanecon.com

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 22h

🚨Econ Academic Job Alert🚨

UCalgary econ is posting for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics

Join us! #econsky

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1691840...

Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics in Calgary, ...

careers.ucalgary.ca

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Maggie Jones @maggieecjones.bsky.social · 17h

McGill Econ is hiring 🙌🏼

Check out our job ad below!

Nico Ajzenman @nicolasajz.bsky.social · 5d

🍁🍁Hello! We hiring in the junior market! 🍁🍁

Apply to work with us at McGill's Econ department!

Full ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

EJM - Econ Job Market

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Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 2d

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks

YouTube video by Reuters

www.youtube.com

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 1d

Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr, Avner Greif, & Guido Tabellini discuss their recent book in which they argue institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths of economic and political development.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Avner Grief, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini

The starkly different paths of economic and institutional development followed by China and the West is often attributed largely to the Industrial Revolution. This column argues that institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths well before the onset of the Industrial Revolution, but the role they played was mediated by a critical difference between the two civilisations: the nature of their prevalent social organisations. A key factor behind China’s remarkable economic resurgence has been its capacity to adapt traditional institutions and cultural practices to the needs of a modern economy.

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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 2d

"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️

Alexander Wulfers @alexanderwulfers.com · 2d

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

LIVE: Nobel Prize in economics winner Joel Mokyr speaks

YouTube video by Reuters

www.youtube.com

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 1d

kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...

A Nobel for Innovation: Mokyr, Aghion, and Howitt

kevinbryanecon.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 18d

Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000

Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini

How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium

Price:
$39.95/£35.00
ISBN:
Published (US):
Nov 4, 2025
Published (UK):
Dec 30, 2025
Copyright:
2025
Pages:
544
Size:
6.13 x 9.25 in.
Illus:
16 b/w illus. 11 tables. 1 map.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Sep 11

Despite progress, Americans continue to live in racially homogeneous neighborhoods. We spoke with Trevon Logan of Ohio State and John Parman of @wm.edu about why residential segregation persists, and why it matters. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/rac...

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

www.aeaweb.org

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Emil Hvitfeldt @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 21d

I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto

Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website

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Shooshan Danagoulian @shooshan.bsky.social · 22d

Newly published in Journal of Health Economics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Seasonal allergies and mental health: Do small health shocks affect suicidality?

Suicide rates increased 37% in the US from 2000 to 2018; while structural factors are extensively studied, short-term triggers remain less understood.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 22d

This new CESifo working paper on covariate balancing looks very interesting. @jmwooldridge.bsky.social

Link: www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 27d

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 28d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria" by Philipp Ager, Casper W. Hansen, and Peter Z. Lin. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Medical Technology and Life Expectancy: Evidence from the Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine the impact of the free supply of diphtheria antitoxin, the first effective medical treatment for an infectious disease, on the historical health transition in Massac...

www.aeaweb.org

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Laurent Bergé @lrberge.bsky.social · Sep 10

#rstats #econsky

fixest v0.13.0 is finally out!

It's still about making OLS and GLM estimations easy.

Some major changes:
- *default* VCOV becomes iid always!
- singletons are removed by default!

See all the changes here:
github.com/lrberge/fixe...

fixest: Fast Fixed-Effects Estimations

Fast and user-friendly estimation of econometric models with multiple fixed-effects. Includes ordinary least squares (OLS), generalized linear models (GLM) and the negative binomial. The core of the p...

cran.r-project.org

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Miami University Economics @miamiecon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Let's welcome our next departmental seminar speaker, John Parman. He will present his paper, "The Great Migration and Women's Work."

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · Sep 11

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

www.aeaweb.org

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NBER @nber.org · Sep 4

The first edition of The Bulletin on the Economics of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias is now available: https://www.nber.org/ba

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Guo Xu @guoxu.bsky.social · Aug 29

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · Aug 28

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · Aug 26

For Day 2 of our celebration of work using the Census Tree we highlight @lukestein.com & co's work on the gendered impacts of perceived skin tone. They find that among African Amer. sisters, women perceived to be darker-skinned were disadvantaged.

*They also cite a great QJE pub by Lisa Cook et al*

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Kevin A. Bryan @afinetheorem.bsky.social · Aug 25

Incredibly excited for my brand new class at Rotman this fall: Progress! Econ history + theory + history of thought + philosophy on why rare orgs at rare times in rare places accomplish new things. Trying to put rigor onto an idea that is very much in the air. kevinbryanecon.com/Bryan-Progre... 1/3

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · Aug 25

Nice post by @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social on the scaling benefits that come from offloading your big regression jobs to a database. jamesbrandecon.github.io/blog/posts_h...

(Showcasing some new-ish 📦 s that he, @apoorvalal.com & myself have been working on, but haven't really advertised yet.)

2025-08-24_dbreg-Is-Super-Fast

jamesbrandecon.github.io

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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · Aug 22

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @meltemdaysal.bsky.social, Hui Ding, @maya-rossin-slater.bsky.social and Hannes Schwandt study the spread of respiratory illnesses among children and the magnitudes of externalities on younger infant siblings over the short and long-run. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

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